Tridgell Reveals Bitkeeper Secrets

wallykeyster writes "The Register is reporting on Andrew Tridgell publicly demonstrating how to interoperate with Bitkeeper. During his keynote at the Linux.Conf.Au, Tridgell connected to a BitKeeper site via telnet and used the mostly forgotten "help" tool. Ethical arguments of aside, what really counts as reverse engineering anyway?"

Bit Keeper's actually...

[Anonymous Coward]

A man named Johan Mikelson who keeps track of every bit inside his head!

Re:Mod parent up, then

[lilmouse]

err...give him back his karma :-P

(yeah, yeah, I know the Preview button is there - you can give him some of my karma for not previewing)

The Linux Life?

[mveloso]

These political spats are fun, but realistically speaking, this is degenerating into an episode of "The Simple Life."

Next thing you know, Torvalis will be breaking up with Perens because "well, he knows what he did."

Person 1 liked a tool. Person 2's actions caused the first person to lose rights to his tool. Person 1 vents. Person 3 vents on Person 1. BFD.

Soon, there will be a group hug and an exchange of hair care products. End of story. Welcome to "life in the big leagues of software." Tune in next week, when Person 5 attempts to purchase a voltage regulator.

Re:Using BK's servers

[slashdot_commentator]

You're kidding right? If the BK system is so brittle that it cannot protect itself against a hostile client then it should not be hosting any source code.

Gee, if Linux/Microsoft is so brittle that it cannot protect itself from a hostile client, people shouldn't use it either.

Re:lol @ #buttes, failures.

[blueskies]

And who the HELL are you to be telling Torvalds how he should spend his time?

I did some research on him:

He is Mikael Johansson.
His slashdot ID is 814403.
And here is a link to his account in case you want to know more: http://slashdot.org/~Mikael%20Johansson [slashdot.org].

Re:lol @ #buttes, failures.

[naarok]

UNIX was and is open source?

Tell that to AT&T then (or SCO now)

What part of this don't you get?

[glrotate]

Tridgell = Samba = Screws Microsoft = Good

Any questions?

Re:Linus' new RCS name: 'git'

[Soruk]

That's okay. Linus gives us a new git, and FSF - an old git.

Re:lol @ #buttes, failures.

[Michael Snoswell]

All very true - but - please don't invite me to your place for dinner!!!!